{"id":382976,"date":"2026-01-02T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382976\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:17:07","slug":"tyrese-maxey-explodes-for-34-points-as-76ers-beat-mavericks-123-108-extending-dallas-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382976\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey explodes for 34 points as 76ers beat Mavericks 123-108, extending Dallas&#8217; losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Maxey had 34 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds, Joel Embiid scored 22 points and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/sports\/sixers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> 123-108 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie guard VJ Edgecombe, the one-and-done player from Baylor playing 100 miles from his college campus for the first time, scored 23 points two nights after hitting a 3-pointer in the final seconds of a 139-136 overtime victory at Memphis. <\/p>\n<p>Oft-injured Anthony Davis returned for Dallas after missing two games with a sore adductor muscle. The 10-time All-Star finished with 13 points and eight rebounds as the Mavs matched their season worst with a fourth consecutive loss.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg scored 12 points for the Mavericks, who were led by Max Christie&#8217;s 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Former Maverick Quentin Grimes, part of a different trade last season soon after the infamous swap of Luka Doncic for Davis between Dallas and the Los Angeles Lakers, had 19 points, seven rebounds and three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers were up six when Grimes had a steal and dunk to trigger his 11-point fourth quarter, when he made all three of his 3-point attempts and had one of his blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Paul George scored 14 points, starting and ending a 17-2 run that gave Philadelphia a 44-37 lead in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks shot 65% in the first, taking a 33-27 lead before shooting 38% the rest of the way. Davis and Flagg combined to go 11 of 28 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey was 14 of 24 with a mix of long-range shooting and deft driving in another strong road performance against his hometown team. Edgecombe finished 9 of 14 as the Sixers shot 53%.<\/p>\n<p>76ers: At the New York Knicks on Saturday to finish a five-game trip.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks: Host the Houston Rockets on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey had 34 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds, Joel Embiid scored 22 points and the Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,760,5555,3014,355,2113,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-382976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas-mavericks","10":"tag-joel-embiid","11":"tag-luka-doncic","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}